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<td class="v">9:1</td>
<td>Then Job answered and said,</td>
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<td class="v">9:2</td>
<td>I know it is so of a truth: but how should man be just with God?</td>
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<td class="v">9:3</td>
<td>If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.</td>
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<td class="v">9:4</td>
<td>He is wise in heart, and mighty in strength: who hath hardened himself against him, and hath prospered?</td>
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<td class="v">9:5</td>
<td>Which removeth the mountains, and they know not: which overturneth them in his anger.</td>
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<td class="v">9:6</td>
<td>Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.</td>
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<td class="v">9:7</td>
<td>Which commandeth the sun, and it riseth not; and sealeth up the stars.</td>
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<td class="v">9:8</td>
<td>Which alone spreadeth out the heavens, and treadeth upon the waves of the sea.</td>
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<td class="v">9:9</td>
<td>Which maketh Arcturus, Orion, and Pleiades, and the chambers of the south.</td>
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<td class="v">9:10</td>
<td>Which doeth great things past finding out; yea, and wonders without number.</td>
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<td class="v">9:11</td>
<td>Lo, he goeth by me, and I see him not: he passeth on also, but I perceive him not.</td>
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<td class="v">9:12</td>
<td>Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?</td>
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<td class="v">9:13</td>
<td>If God will not withdraw his anger, the proud helpers do stoop under him.</td>
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<td class="v">9:14</td>
<td>How much less shall I answer him, and choose out my words to reason with him?</td>
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<td class="v">9:15</td>
<td>Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer, but I would make supplication to my judge.</td>
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<td class="v">9:16</td>
<td>If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.</td>
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<td class="v">9:17</td>
<td>For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause.</td>
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<td class="v">9:18</td>
<td>He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.</td>
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<td class="v">9:19</td>
<td>If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?</td>
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<td class="v">9:20</td>
<td>If I justify myself, mine own mouth shall condemn me: if I say, I am perfect, it shall also prove me perverse.</td>
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<td class="v">9:21</td>
<td>Though I were perfect, yet would I not know my soul: I would despise my life.</td>
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<td class="v">9:22</td>
<td>This is one thing, therefore I said it, He destroyeth the perfect and the wicked.</td>
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<td class="v">9:23</td>
<td>If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.</td>
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<td class="v">9:24</td>
<td>The earth is given into the hand of the wicked: he covereth the faces of the judges thereof; if not, where, and who is he?</td>
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<td class="v">9:25</td>
<td>Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.</td>
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<td class="v">9:26</td>
<td>They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.</td>
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<td class="v">9:27</td>
<td>If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself:</td>
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<td class="v">9:28</td>
<td>I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.</td>
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<td class="v">9:29</td>
<td>If I be wicked, why then labour I in vain?</td>
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<td class="v">9:30</td>
<td>If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;</td>
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<td class="v">9:31</td>
<td>Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.</td>
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<td class="v">9:32</td>
<td>For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, and we should come together in judgment.</td>
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<td class="v">9:33</td>
<td>Neither is there any daysman betwixt us, that might lay his hand upon us both.</td>
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<td class="v">9:34</td>
<td>Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:</td>
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<td class="v">9:35</td>
<td>Then would I speak, and not fear him; but it is not so with me.</td>
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